carry through

verb

carried through; carrying through; carries through

intransitive verb

: persist, survive
feelings that carry through to the present

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That pattern carried through just about all night, with Anisimova broken immediately after breaking four times out of five. Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025 Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Then this body of work sat, boxed up and carried through a life’s career, unexamined for nearly 60 years. Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2025 On warm nights in the Namib Sand Sea — Namibia’s vast coastal desert — an unusual sound carries through the air. Lauren Liebhaber september 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carry through

Word History

First Known Use

1608, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of carry through was in 1608

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“Carry through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carry%20through. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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